Abstract: A fluid dispenser used to administer fixed or adjustable doses of fluids in oral, intranasal, or injectable applications. The dispenser may be used to draw off fluid from a flexible or rigid bulk container or to draw fluid from a mounted flexible or rigid container such as a sealed-end bag or bottle, or a threaded bag or bottle. The fluid dispenser generally comprises: a connection member communicatively connected to a fluid source container; a body member having a dose cylinder communicatively connected to the connection member; a piston member operationally related to the dose cylinder and spring biased in an extended position; and a trigger member attached to the piston member and communicatively connected to the dose cylinder through the piston member. The dispenser may include a guide positioned on the connection member. The guide includes a platform portion and a guide portion, both of which being adapted to form a container passage.

Abstract: An implanter for inserting implants such as microchips, medicants or other such devices under the skin of animals or humans. The implanter has a tubular implanter body with an interior wall which has a feature for retaining the implant, a hollow needle integral with the implanter body, and a push rod which engages the implant and pushes it through the hollow needle and into the animal or human. One end of the push rod is bent so that when the push rod is operationally disposed in the implanter body, the bent end is forced to become nearly straight, which provides friction force between the push rod and the interior wall of the implanter body to keep the push rod from falling out of the implanter body. The other end of the push rod has a knob which the user manually engages to depress the push rod. An implanter of the present invention accommodates typical manufacturing variations in the inside diameter of the implanter body or of the push rod with imperceptible changes in friction load on the push rod.

Abstract: In the machine recognition of hand printed characters it is desirable that the characters be constrained to a uniform size. This may be accomplished by taking a relatively unconstrained hand printed character and, through simple logical processes involving eliminating and/or combining portions of the unconstrained character, obtain a constrained character of a specified size. To obtain this specified character, the unconstrained characters are stored in a video line buffer as a plurality of rows of binary bits. When a row character is located in the video line buffer a process of vertical and horizontal consolidation is initiated. In the vertical consolidation, which is performed first, predetermined rows of the bits of the row character are selectively combined with other rows of stored bits or selected without change to reduce the height of the character to a predetermined desired height. Unselected rows are ignored.